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SB 17/LM/CI (BR 202) - J. Denton, D. Harper Angel, P. Clark, G. Neal

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Amend KRS 510.110, relating to sexual abuse in the first degree, to prohibit certain persons employed by or associated with an agency or facility responsible for detention or treatment from having sexual contact with persons incarcerated, supervised, evaluated, or treated by those agencies; amend KRS 510.120 to conform.

SB 17 - AMENDMENTS

SCS/LM/CI - Delete original provisions; amend KRS 510.060, relating to rape in the third degree, and KRS 510.090, relating to sodomy in the third degree, to prohibit certain persons employed by or associated with an agency or facility responsible for detention or treatment from having sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with persons incarcerated, supervised, evaluated, or treated by those agencies; amend KRS 510.120, relating to sexual abuse in the second degree, to conform.

SCA (1/Title, T. Jensen) - Make title amendment.

SB 64 (BR 868) - G. Tapp, J. Pendleton, E. Tori

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
Amend KRS 150.022 to subject appointments to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission to confirmation by the Senate; permit reappointment to the commission one time; prohibit appointment to the commission if convicted of a Class A misdemeanor or felony game law violation in any state or any jurisdiction; require the Governor to remove any commissioner if he or she was convicted of a Class A misdemeanor or felony game law violation in any state or any jurisdiction; remove eligibility of resident motorboat owners to vote for a commissioner in sportsmen's district election; amend KRS 150.150 to prohibit commingling of moneys in the Fish and Game Fund and require moneys be kept according to generally accepted accounting principles; amend KRS 150.061 to delete the indefinite term of employment and require a defined contract term of employment for the commissioner of Fish and Wildlife which is subject to removal or reappointment by the commission; require the commission to approve compensation, duties and terms of employment of the commission's employees; amend KRS 150.090 to require conservation officers to have full peace officer powers with restrictions to enforce fish and game laws only, except when there is a written request for assistance by another law enforcement agency and the commissioner has determined the fiscal impact on the department' resources or if there is an immediate life-threatening situation; restrict conservation officers service of process unrelated to enforcement of fish and game laws; require requests for assistance for periods longer than thirty days to have the approval of the commission and for assistance with commission approval to have a limited duration of thirty days; amend KRS 235.330 to require moneys collected under the boating chapters to be kept under different accounts in the Fish and Game Fund and not to be commingled with other funds; delete use of general fund appropriations for the Division of Law Enforcement.

SB 64 - AMENDMENTS

SCS (1) - Retain original provisions of SB 64; require the Auditor of Public Accounts to perform an annual audit of the department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; delete ineligibility to serve on the commission if convicted of a Class A misdemeanor; prohibit service on the commission if convicted of a felony; and delete restrictions on duties of conservation officers with respect to enforcement of laws outside the fish and game statutes.

SCS (2) - Retain original provisions; create new sections of KRS Chapter 150 to require annual audits; require the commission to replace public hunting land when it becomes unavailable for that purpose; require a report on-no-net loss of public hunting lands to the Legislative Research Commission and to the Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment by October 1 of each year; allow persons to carry firearms on commission-owned or managed land; allow use of firearm for personal protection and prohibit use of firearm on commission land to take an animal in violation of fish and game laws; amend KRS 150.022 to prohibit persons that have committed a felony from serving on the commission; amend KRS 150.150 and KRS 235.330 to require the fish and game fund to maintain separate restricted fund accounts and to prohibit commingling of money in the fund; amend KRS 150.061 to require the department commissioner to be subject to annual review in closed session by the commission and require the commission to approve grant-funded, time-limited positions; amend KRS 150.725 to define the import of captive cervids and to establish a definition for "in transit" of captive cervids; amend KRS 150.740 to provide regulation and permit transport of captive cervids through the state if the final destination is outside of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 150.990 to create tiered penalties for violations of taking wildlife with a firearm during bow season.

HCS - Retain provisions of SB 64/GA; provide that for hunting to be allowed on agency-owned or agency-managed land, that agency, in addition to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission, must determine that the land is suitable for hunting; require the department to prescribe a method to allow an applicant for a license required under KRS 150.175 to voluntarily contribute $2.00 at the time of making the application to the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program or other hunter and angler recruitment and retention programs.

HFA (1, R. Damron) - Retain original provisions; add new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to hold hearings or administrative regulations affecting abutting property owners to department-owned or-controlled property within 10 miles of the property boundary; add a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to provide that the department shall, by administrative regulation, specify permitted and prohibited uses of department property, licenses, and permits for use of department property and buffer areas between department-owned property and adjoining property.

HFA (2/P, K. Hall) - Attach the provisions of House Bill 173 to Senate Bill 64/HCS.

HFA (3/Title, K. Hall) - Make title amendment.

SB 107/LM (BR 1438) - B. Smith

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit possession of, trafficking in, and cultivation of salvia and impose penalties; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "salvia"; amend KRS 218A.050 to include salvia as a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 217.065, relating to misbranded drug or device, to include salvia; amend KRS 218A.141 relating to additional penalties for trafficking, to include trafficking in salvia; amend KRS 218A.1411, relating to trafficking in a controlled substance in or near school, to exclude offenses relating to salvia; amend KRS 218A.276, relating to a rehabilitation program for possessors of marijuana, to include possessors of salvia; amend KRS 218A.410, relating to property subject to forfeiture, to exclude misdemeanor offenses relating to salvia in certain circumstances; amend KRS 218A.500 to include in the definition of "drug paraphernalia" certain items used with salvia; amend KRS 218A.992, relating to enhancement of penalty for drug offense when in possession of a firearm, to exclude offenses involving salvia; amend KRS 530.064, relating to unlawful transaction with a minor in the first degree, to exclude activity involving salvia; amend various other sections to conform; EMERGENCY.

SB 107 - AMENDMENTS

SCS/LM - Retain original provisions relating to salvia; create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A in addition to salvia to prohibit possession of, trafficking in, and cultivation of synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines and impose penalties; amend KRS 218A.010 to add definitions of "synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines"; amend KRS 218A.050 to include synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines as a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 217.065 to include synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.141 to include trafficking in synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.1411 to exclude offenses relating to synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.1413 to include synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.1416 to include synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.276 to include possessors of synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.410 to exclude misdemeanor offenses relating to synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines in certain circumstances; amend KRS 218A to delete Class D felony for second or subsequent offenses; amend KRS 218A.992 to exclude offenses involving synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines; amend KRS 530.064 to exclude activity involving synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines; add amendment of KRS 218A.1401 to exclude salvia, synthetic cannabinoid agonists, or piperazines from selling controlled substances to a minor; amend various other sections to conform; delete emergency clause.

SCA (1/Title, T. Jensen) - Make title amendment.

HCS/LM - Retain original provisions relating to salvia, except modify the penalty for trafficking; delete provisions relating to synthetic cannabinoid agonists and piperazines; EMERGENCY.

HFA (1/P, J. Gooch Jr.) - Attach the provisions of HB 282/GA.

HFA (2, J. Tilley) - Insert provision amending KRS 514.040 to modify the standards applicable to a merchant's bad check fee.

HFA (3/P, R. Palumbo) - Attach the provisions of HB 366/GA.

SB 131 (BR 1489) - E. Harris

AN ACT relating to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to restrict access to Department of Juvenile Justice records if a release of the record would present a threat to the security of a juvenile, juvenile facility, or other person; provide that the department is not required to comply with a record request from a juvenile within the facility unless the record contains a specific reference to that individual; allow persons to challenge denial of a record request pursuant to KRS 61.880(2).

SB 141 (BR 1329) - J. Denton

AN ACT relating to persistant felony offenders.
Repeal KRS 210.360, relating to a mandatory mental examination of persistent felony offenders.

HB 1/LM/CI (BR 251) - G. Stumbo, R. Palumbo, R. Weston, R. Adams, R. Adkins, M. Cherry, L. Clark, H. Collins, W. Coursey, J. Crenshaw, R. Crimm, R. Damron, M. Denham, M. Dossett, T. Edmonds, T. Firkins, K. Flood, J. Greer, K. Hall, R. Henderson, C. Hoffman, J. Hoover, D. Horlander, D. Keene, M. King, Ji. Lee, T. McKee, C. Miller, S. Overly, D. Owens, D. Pasley, J. Richards, S. Riggs, T. Riner, S. Santoro, K. Sinnette, A. Smith, J. Stacy, F. Steele, K. Stevens, W. Stone, T. Thompson, D. Watkins, S. Westrom, B. Yonts

AN ACT relating to the use of global positioning monitoring systems including monitoring-related restrictions and sanctions in domestic violence cases.
Amend KRS 403.720 relating to domestic violence definitions to define "global positioning monitoring system"; amend KRS 403.740 relating to emergency protective orders to permit a court to restrain a respondent from going to or near specified locations; amend KRS 403.750 relating to domestic violence orders to permit a court to restrain a respondent from going to or near specified locations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to permit the petitioner in a domestic violence order case to inform the court of places the petitioner does not want the respondent to go into or near; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to require the court to assess the respondent's dangerousness; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to a permit court, as part of a domestic violence order, to order a respondent to wear or carry global monitoring system device and permit a petitioner to carry a device notifying the petitioner that the respondent is nearby; require the court to notify the petitioner of the operation and limitations of global positioning monitoring system devices, and provide a penalty for removing or tampering with the device; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to require the Department of Corrections to contract with entities providing global positioning system monitoring services to provide services meeting the requirements of the statutes; name act the Amanda Ross Domestic Violence Prevention Act.

HB 1 - AMENDMENTS

HCS/LM/CI - Retain original provisions, except change references relating to a child of the petitioner to be a minor; delete provision requiring Department of Corrections to operate the monitoring program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to permit a county or group of contiguous counties to operate a global positioning monitoring system; set requirements for counties operating a monitoring system, permit a county to charge an administrative fee in addition to the monitoring fee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to set forth monitoring system and contract requirements; permits counties to operate monitoring programs for pretrial release, pretrial diversion, and probation programs; amend KRS 431.517 relating to pretrial release of a person on home incarceration to permit a court to include GPS monitoring; amend KRS 431.518 relating to pretrial release of persons with substance abuse problems to permit the court to include GPS monitoring; amend KRS 431.520 relating to pretrial release to permit the court to include GPS monitoring; amend KRS 533.250 relating to felony pretrial diversion programs to permit the court to include GPS monitoring; amend KRS 533.030 relating to probation to permit a court ordering probation or shock probation to order GPS monitoring.

HCA (1/Title, G. Stumbo) - Make title amendment.

HFA (1, T. Kerr) - Amend Section 5(4) of the bill when a petitioner makes a request to require the respondent to participate in a global positioning monitoring system and conduct investigations about the respondent's past history of violence; require the court to weigh the likelihood that if the respondent is not ordered to participate in monitoring that respondent will likely seek to kill, physically injure, stalk, or otherwise threaten the petitioner or a minor child of the petitioner; enter an order with findings of fact and reasons why the petitioner's request is being granted or denied, and make technical corrections.

HFA (2, G. Stumbo) - Replace requirements for the global positioning technology used by a county or group of contiguous counties that operates a global positioning monitoring system.

HFA (3, G. Stumbo) - Declare an EMERGENCY.

HFA (4/Title, G. Stumbo) - Make title amendment.

SCS (1/LM/CI) - Retain original provisions except in amendment of KRS 403.720 change definition of “family member” to delete persons related by consanguinity or affinity within the second degree; include grandparents and any other person living in the same household as a child if the child is the alleged victim; expand definition of “global positioning monitoring system” to include radio frequency technology; in amendment of KRS 403.740 relating to emergency protective orders to restrict locations respondent must stay away from to a residence, school, or place of employment and expand class of protected persons to include a family member and member of an unmarried couple; expand period that an emergency protective order may be renewed without a hearing; insert a new Section 3 to create a new section of KRS 403.715 to 403.785 to require the court prior to a domestic violence order hearing to obtain the respondent’s criminal and domestic violence history; require the petitioner to fill out a domestic violence dangerousness assessment form specified by the Supreme Court of Kentucky, consider the information obtained, and provide copies of the information obtained to the parties; insert a new section 4 to require the court to have the county attorney or a representative of the county attorney’s office to be present at a DVO hearing to provide the petitioner information about utilizing criminal prosecution; in amendment of KRS 403.750 relating to DVO’s, restrict locations respondent must stay away from to a residence, school, or place of employment and expand class of protected persons to include a family member and member of an unmarried couple; provide that a court cannot order the use of a global positioning monitoring system device unless the respondent has committed a substantial violation of the DVO; insert a new Section 6 to create a new section of KRS 403.715 to 403.785 to require court to inform parties at a DVO hearing of penalties for perjury; permit respondent to provide objections to proposed DVO restrictions; insert a new Section 7 defining what acts constitute a substantial violation of a DVO; require court to update the criminal and domestic violence record checks and make notifications to the petitioner previously required in Sections 4 and 5 of the GA version of the bill; delete requirement for law enforcement dangerousness evaluations, limit the exceptions for the penalty for removal of a monitoring device to permitting the monitoring entity to remove the device, permit a county or other organization to pay all or part of an indigent respondent’s monitoring fee; insert a new Section 8 to create a new section of KRS 403.715 to 403.785 to permit the respondent to petition the court for shortening or ending the use of the GPS device after 3 months and if the petition is denied then once every 6 months thereafter; insert a new Section 9 to create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 relating to county operation of GPS monitoring systems containing the provisions in the former Section 6 except eliminate the requirement that counties be contiguous; remove the “near real time” requirement; clarify that a county does not have to engage in GPS monitoring but if it does so that the requirements of the section be met; add provision that a county or counties may pay all or part of an indigent person’s monitoring fee if the person otherwise would have been lodged in jail and the cost of monitoring would be less than the cost of jailing the person; insert a new Section 10 creating a new section of KRS Chapter 67 containing GPS contract and other provisions similar to the prior Section 7; add provision making GPS monitoring information confidential and permit its release by court order or search warrant; specify that improperly disclosed information is inadmissible in court; specify that illegally divulging GPS information is a Class A misdemeanor; permit county to pay for all or part of a defendant’s monitoring fee; in amendment of KRS 431.517 relating to home incarceration remove GPS warning devices for victims and witnesses, add requirement that GPS violation information also be provided to Commonwealth’s attorney or county attorney, as appropriate, permit county or other organization to pay all or part of monitoring fees for indigent defendant; in amendment of KRS 431.518 relating to pretrial release of person charged with felony drug offense, remove GPS warning devices for victims and witnesses; permit county or other organization to pay all or part of monitoring fees for indigent defendant; in amendment of KRS 431.520 relating to pretrial release remove GPS warning devices for victims and witnesses, permit county or other organization to pay all or part of monitoring fees for indigent defendant; in amendment of KRS 533.250 relating to pretrial diversion remove GPS warning devices for victims and witnesses; remove consent of Commonwealth’s attorney retain request of Commonwealth’s attorney, permit county or other organization to pay all or part of monitoring fees for indigent defendant; in amendment of KRS 533.030 relating to probation and conditional discharge to remove GPS warning devices for victims and witnesses; permit county or other organization to pay all or part of monitoring fees for indigent defendant; insert a new Section 16 to amend KRS 15.334 relating to police in-service training to require domestic violence and abuse training once every 2 years; insert new Section 17 to amend KRS 431.005 relating to domestic violence arrests to specify that definitions of family member and member of unmarried couple are the same as in Section 1 of bill; insert a new Section 18 to create a new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create the crime of domestic violence shelter trespass as a Class A misdemeanor; delete emergency clause.

SCS (2/LM/CI) - Retain original provisions of SCS1, except in Section 4 relating to involvement of the county attorney in domestic violence proceedings to make court notification of the petitioner and the county attorney permissive, require court to explain to petitioner that contacting the county attorney is voluntary; require county attorney to explain various criminal options to the petitioner if the petitioner requests meeting with the county attorney; add new Section 19 to amend KRS 403.735 relating to emergency protective order hearings to require the court to notify the petitioner about criminal options available through the county attorney if the petitioner is not eligible for an emergency protective order or domestic violence order; make technical corrections.

SCA (1/Title, T. Jensen) - Make title amendment.

SFA (1, T. Jensen) - Make technical correction.

CCR - Cannot agree.

FCCR - Retain original provisions except delete all references to dangerousness assessment; add a new subsection in Section 2 to permit a court to order respondent to keep a specified distance not to exceed 500 feet from petitioner or a minor child of a petitioner; permit emergency protective orders to be continued for 6-month periods rather than 90-day periods; permit dismissal without prejudice; amend Section 3 to permit the petitioner, respondent, or the court to request, prior to a domestic violence order hearing, criminal background checks to be Kentucky rather than national checks; require sharing of criminal history and other documents with respondent and petitioner in accordance with CR 26 of the Rules of Civil Procedure; amend Section 4 to require national record check to be Kentucky criminal record check and delete all references to "or representative of the county attorney"; amend Section 5 to permit a court to order respondent to keep a specified distance not to exceed 500 feet from petitioner or minor child of petitioner; delete perjury warning in Section 6 and include "attempt to harm" petitioner in court order; amend Section 7 to add "wanton endangerment" as a "substantial violation" and change the national criminal history check to a Kentucky criminal history check; amend Section 7 to clarify that a court is not limited in the other sanctions that a court can use for violation of a domestic violence order; amend Section 8 to permit an individual "person" to pay a respondent's GPS monitoring fee; add a subsection to Section 9 specifying that a person ordered by a judge to wear a GPS device in a criminal case is subject to the judge's orders in that case and that Sections 1 to 8 do not apply; amend Section 11 to permit an individual person to pay a defendant's GPS monitoring in a pretrial release case; amend Section 14 to permit an individual person to pay a defendant's GPS monitoring in a pretrial diversion case; make title amendment.

HB 79 (BR 199) - J. Arnold Jr.

AN ACT relating to the operation of golf carts on public roads.
Amend KRS 189.286, relating to the ability of local governments to allow operation of golf cart on roads under their control, to expand the allowable distance from a golf course from five miles to seven miles.

HB 79 - AMENDMENTS

HCS - Delete new language of the original bill; eliminate references in the original statute relating to a five-mile radius of a golf course.

HB 216/LM (BR 1028) - J. Richards, T. Riner

AN ACT relating to special Fraternal Order of Police license plates.
Amend KRS 186.162 to establish an extra fee of $5 initial and $10 renewal for special Fraternal Order of Police license plates; direct that the extra fee benefit the Fraternal Order of Police Death Benefit Fund.

HB 262 (BR 1222) - S. Santoro

AN ACT relating to inspections of commercial motor vehicles.
Amend KRS 189.227 to change references to "weighmasters" to "commercial motor vehicle inspectors"; transfer employment of commercial motor vehicle inspectors from the Transportation Cabinet to the State Police; make technical corrections.

HB 262 - AMENDMENTS

SCS - Amend KRS 281.755 to allow any peace officer designated by the Department of Kentucky State Police to make an inspection of any motor vehicle operating under the provisions of KRS Chapter 281; apply retroactively, but shall not be construed to permit the prosecution of a person whose vehicle was inspected by a peace officer who did not, prior to the effective date of this Act, have authority to perform inspections under KRS Chapter 281.

HB 265/LM (BR 1083) - W. Coursey, G. Stumbo, J. Crenshaw, J. Richards, F. Steele, T. Thompson, A. Webb-Edgington, B. Yonts

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit possession of, trafficking in, and cultivation of salvia and impose penalties; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "salvia"; amend KRS 218A.050 to include salvia as a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 217.065, relating to misbranded drug or device, to include salvia; amend KRS 218A.141 relating to additional penalties for trafficking, to include trafficking in salvia; amend KRS 218A.1411, relating to trafficking in a controlled substance in or near school, to exclude offenses relating to salvia; amend KRS 218A.276, relating to a rehabilitation program for possessors of marijuana, to include possessors of salvia; amend KRS 218A.410, relating to property subject to forfeiture, to exclude misdemeanor offenses relating to salvia in certain circumstances; amend KRS 218A.500 to include in the definition of "drug paraphernalia" certain items used with salvia; amend KRS 218A.992, relating to enhancement of penalty for drug offense when in possession of a firearm, to exclude offenses involving salvia; amend KRS 530.064, relating to unlawful transaction with a minor in the first degree, to exclude activity involving salvia; amend various other sections to conform; EMERGENCY.

HB 265 - AMENDMENTS

SCS (1/LM) - Delete original provisions; Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit possession of, trafficking in, and cultivation of synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines and impose penalties; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines"; amend KRS 218A.050 to include synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines as a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 217.065 relating to misbranded drug or device to include synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.1401 relating to selling controlled substances to a minor to exclude synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.141 relating to additional penalties for trafficking to include trafficking in synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.1411 relating to trafficking in a controlled substance in or near school to exclude offenses relating to synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.1413 to exclude synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines from trafficking in a controlled substance in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1416 to exclude synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines from possession of a controlled substance in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.276 relating to a rehabilitation program for possessors or marijuana to include possessors of synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 218A.410 relating to property subject to forfeiture to exclude misdemeanor offenses relating to synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines in certain circumstances; amend KRS 218A.500 relating to drug paraphernalia to modify the penalty; amend KRS 218A.992, relating to enhancement of penalty for drug offense when in possession of a firearm to exclude offenses involving synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; amend KRS 530.064 relating to unlawful transaction with a minor in the first degree to exclude activity involving synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines; declare an EMERGENCY.

SCS (2/LM) - Amend SCS 1 to include provisions creating a per se DUI offense if certain listed drugs are detected in a driver's blood and the driver lacks a prescription for those drugs and to lower the blood alcohol level required for an aggravated DUI offense from 0.18 to 0.15 of a person's blood alcohol level.

SFA (1, R. Stivers II) - Insert provision amending KRS 514.040 to modify the standards applicable to a merchant's bad check fee.

HB 285/LM/CI (BR 63) - A. Wuchner, L. Belcher, R. Adams, S. Brinkman, T. Burch, J. Carney, R. Crimm, B. Farmer, J. Fischer, B. Housman, J. Jenkins, T. Kerr, S. Lee, M. Marzian, T. Moore, R. Nelson, M. Rader, T. Riner, F. Steele, A. Webb-Edgington, S. Westrom, J. York

AN ACT relating to pediatric abusive head trauma.
Provide noncodified language to acknowledge a current pilot project designed to educate parents about pediatric abusive head trauma at three Norton Healthcare hospitals and request that preliminary results be shared with the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by November 2010; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; amend KRS 15.334 to include the dynamics of pediatric abusive head trauma and model protocols to address pediatric abusive head trauma as mandatory training subjects for law enforcement officers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require inclusion of a segment on pediatric abusive head trauma in health education curriculum in Kentucky high schools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to require that a course covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma be made available to inmates in state penitentiaries, and encourage local jailers to include a similar course; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to require that practicing guardian ad litem attorneys receive 1.5 hours of training in the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every five years as part of their continuing legal education; amend KRS 199.472 to require all prospective adoptive parents to take a 1.5 hour course in the prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 199.896 to require employees and owners of child-care centers to take a 1.5 hour course once every 5 years as a part of their continuing education requirements and covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 211.690 to require the HANDS program to include an educational component on the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require all health care professionals practicing in urgent care facilities to complete approved continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 311.601 to require practicing pediatricians, radiologists, family practitioners, trauma physicians, and emergency medicine physicians to complete 1.5 hours of continuing medical education once by December 31, 2013, and to require new specialists to complete the 1.5 hour training course once; amend KRS 311.844 to require physician's assistants to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma once by December 31, 2013; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require paramedics to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every five years; amend KRS 311A.120 to require emergency medical technicians or first responders to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every five years; amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses to complete 1.5 hours of continuing competency requirements covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at once by December 31, 2013; amend KRS 335.130 to require licensed social workers and licensed clinical social workers to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every six years; amend KRS 620.360 to require foster parents that receive placements of children under the age of five to attend a continuing education session covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 194A.545 to encourage the cabinet's training academy to include training covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma for front-line child protection staff.

HB 285 - AMENDMENTS

HCS/LM/CI - Delete original provisions; provide noncodified language to acknowledge a current pilot project designed to educate parents about pediatric abusive head trauma at three Norton Healthcare hospitals and request that preliminary results be shared with the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by November 2010; amend KRS 15.334 to include the dynamics of pediatric abusive head trauma and model protocols to address pediatric abusive head trauma as mandatory training subjects for law enforcement officers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to encourage inclusion of a segment on pediatric abusive head trauma in health education curriculum in Kentucky high schools; amend KRS 194A.454 to encourage the secretary for health and family services to include an educational component covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma as a part of the initial and continuing education for Department of Community Based Services front-line child protection staff; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to require that a course covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma be made available to inmates in state penitentiaries, and encourage local jailers to include a similar course; create a new section of KRS 199 to require that practicing guardian ad litem attorneys that represent clients under the age of 5 complete 1.5 hours of training in the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every 5 years as part of their continuing legal education; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to require that a prospective adoptive parent who may receive a child younger than the age of 5 undergo 1.5 hours of an approved educational session covering the prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; require that foster parents that receive children younger than the age of 5 undergo approved continuing education training at least once every 5 years; allow the secretary of the CHFS to collaborate with certain organizations and agencies to approve the courses; amend KRS 199.896 to require employees and owners of child care centers to take a 1.5 hour course once every 5 years as a part of their continuing education requirements covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that family child care providers complete 1.5 hours of training in the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every 5 years; amend KRS 211.690 to require the HANDS program include an educational component on the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "urgent treatment facility" and require that all health care professionals practicing in urgent treatment facilities demonstrate completion of approved training concerning the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma according to the relevant licensing body; amend KRS 311.601 to require practicing pediatricians, radiologists, family practitioners, trauma physicians, and emergency medicine specialists to complete the 1.5 hour training course once by December 31, 2013; amend KRS 311.844 to require physicians assistants complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma once by December 31, 2013; amend KRS 311A.120 to require emergency medical technicians or first responders to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every 5 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require paramedics to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every 5 years; amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses to complete 1.5 hours of continuing competency requirements covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once by December 31, 2013; amend KRS 335.130 to require licensed social workers and licensed clinical social workers to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every 6 years; amend KRS 620.020 to define "pediatric abusive head trauma."

SCS (1/LM) - Retain original provisions, except encourage practicing guardian ad litem attorneys that represent clients under the age of 5 to complete 1.5 hours of training in the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma as part of their continuing legal education and delete the requirement for training.

SCS (2/LM) - Retain original provisions except delete the requirements that physicians and prospective adoptive parents undergo 1.5 hours of training; delete the section that encourages guardian ad litem attorneys to undergo 1.5 hours of training; require urgent treatment facilities to make a course relating to the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma available at least once every two years; and clarify that the 1.5 hours of training are to be included in the current requirements for continuing education.

HB 289/LM/AA (BR 25) - M. Cherry

AN ACT relating to retirement.
Amend KRS 6.525, 16.645, 61.690, 78.545 161.700, and 21.540 to require the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, the State Police Retirement System, the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, the Legislators' Retirement Plan, and the Judicial Retirement Plan to honor qualified domestic relations orders if the orders meet the requirements established by the retirement systems or plan and by these sections; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, 78.510, 161.220, and 21.540 to define a qualified domestic relations order as any judgment, decree, or order issued by a court or administrative agency which relates to the provision of child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights to an alternate payee and to define an alternate payee as a former spouse, child, or other dependent of a member or retired member of the retirement systems; amend KRS 161.620 to clarify that the minimum benefit payment will not apply if the order reduces the member's payment below the minimum; amend KRS 161.585 to provide procedures for responding to and providing testimony when an employee of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System is subpoenaed; amend KRS 161.700 to conform to KRS 403.190(4); amend KRS 21.540 to provide authorization for the Judicial Form Retirement System to promulgate administrative regulations.

HB 289 - AMENDMENTS

SCS/LM/AA - Retain original provisions except make technical amendments to KRS 161.585.

HB 500 (BR 1199) - K. Sinnette, M. Rader, R. Palumbo, T. Riner, S. Santoro, F. Steele, J. Tilley, A. Wuchner

AN ACT relating to crime victims.
Amend KRS 216B.400, relating to examination services for victims of sexual offenses, to include a qualified medical professional as a person qualified to be on call and examine victims of sexual offenses and gather samples from the victims; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet in consultation with the Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee to promulgate regulations for a medical forensic protocol; permit a disabled person to consent to an examination without the required consent of the parent or legal guardian of the individual; add specified medical professionals and entities to parties eligible for reimbursement by the Crime Victims' Compensation Board; provide each victim seeking an examination the right to determine whether to report the offense to law enforcement except in specified circumstances; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet in consultation with the Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee to promulgate administrative regulations for the storage, release, or destruction of samples collected during an examination when the victim has not chosen to report to law enforcement; specify that no hospital, sexual assault examination facility, or designated storage facility shall be liable for destruction of samples after the required storage period has expired; amend KRS 314.011 and 403.707 to conform.

HB 500 - AMENDMENTS

HCS - Retain original provisions; amend to clarify that services related to the sexual assault examination shall be reimbursed by the board, consistent with administrative regulations.

SCS - Retain the original provisions, except delete provision permitting a disabled person to consent to an examination without the required consent of the parent or legal guardian of the individual.

Feb 24-introduced in House
Feb 26-to Judiciary (H)
Mar 1-posted in committee
Mar 3-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
Mar 4-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 5, 2026
Mar 8-3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute
Mar 9-received in Senate
Mar 10-to Judiciary (S)
Mar 18-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
Mar 19-2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 25-posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 26. 2010
Mar 26-3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute ; received in House; to Rules (H)
Mar 29-taken from committee; posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute for Monday, March 29, 2010; House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute ; passed 100-0; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer; delivered to Governor
Apr 8-signed by Governor (Acts ch. 101)